[Zope3-dev] Pluggable authentication id management

[Jim Fulton]

On Jul 31, 2006, at 11:30 AM, Roger Ineichen wrote:
>>
>> I suggest that, for 3.4, we get rid of the PAU prefix option
>> and provide a generation evolution script that, for PAUs with
>> non-empty prefixes, just prepends their prefixes to their
>> plugin prefixes and clears their prefixes.  I'm sorely
>> tempted to do this for 3.3.
>
> I think this is not posible. What if you have a PAU with two
> authenticator plugins in it. Then you can't delegate the prefix
> from the PAU to both authenticator durring a generation and
> provide a unique plugin prefix on authenticator level.

I said prepend the PAU prefix to each plugin's prefix.  The plugin's
prefixes would already have provided uniqueness within the PAU.
Prepending the PAU's prefix would simply duplicate what is being done
now at run time.

Jim

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